Green Bay Packers GM Brian Gutekunst released Anders Carlson on Tuesday and Greg Joseph on Wednesday and is rolling the dice on rookie Brayden Narveson.
GREEN BAY, Wis. – Before the start of OTAs in May, Green Bay Packers special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia was asked whether the team would take kickers Anders Carlson, Greg Joseph and Jack Podlesny to training camp.
The Packers will practice under the lights of Lambeau Field on Thursday as a bit of a dress rehearsal for next Friday night’s game in Brazil. That will be LaFleur’s first time seeing the kicker who might be asked to win games – the biggest games – this season. “We’ll see. At least we’ll get a couple days with him to kind of get a feel for him as he performs. What’s hard is you just don’t have any game experience with him. But he did a nice job in Tennessee, I know that.”
Gutekunst went on with a rather incredible admission considering he had just released his hand-picked successor to the legendary Mason Crosby. Gutekunst’s first draft class was 2018. He used a fifth-round pick on punter JK Scott and gave up on him after three seasons. The last two years with the Chargers, Scott has been one of the better punters in the league in terms of net average and inside-the-20 punts.
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